A Nigerian start-up, Salubata Technologies, emerged as the top four winners of the Kigali Startup Festival 2022 at the Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.
Salubata is a company that transforms plaswastestes into customized shoes.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Salubata, Yewande Adebowale, received a prize of $10,000 at the closing ceremony of the forum.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Youth Forum is one of the four that took place ahead of the main Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
In an interview yesterday with NAN, the Salubata COO said her products impacted the Nigerian economy.
“We wanted to do something that impacts every day part of our lives. We’ve always seen plastic waste around us and have always looked for ways to help the environment.
“We believe these customizable shoes from Salubata could help stamp out plastic wastes in its entirety.
“We believe we are making a very significant change, particularly from an environmental viewpoint, because the volume of plastic wastes in our environments keeps growing every year,” she said.
